The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-09
Weekly News Summary.

6EORGE H. BIGELOW OF burlington is SAID
to he i'll with pneumonia.
THE leading business men of Brattleboro
are to form board Of trade.
f. w. WARD has been elected assistant
treasurer of the Burlington Savings Bank
A. II. FUTILE of Rutland has decided to
make Brooklyn, N. Y, his future home.
REV. II. NJ. HoPKINsoN, formerly mis-
sionary in Burmah, is i'll at Perkinsville.
DIR. b. f. MORGAN of Bennington died
from pneumonia on Saturday, aged eighty
seven.
Hon. w. p. DILLINGHAM of Waterbury is
to deliver the Memorial day address at
johnson.
THERE were three hundred eight births
and one hundred seventy-nne' deaths in
Rutland last year.
JOHNSON LUNT and wife of West Charles
ton observed the sixty-third anniversary of
their wedding recently.
THE little daughter of John Deyette of
Burlington poured kerosene oil on the fire
and was fatally burned.
REV. r. G. MCFARLAND of Newton Cen
ter Mass, has accepted call to the First
Baptist church in Burlington.
COLONEL KrrTREDGE HAsKINs of Brattle-
boro has been engaged to deliver the Memo
rial Day address at st. Adams.
GEORGE STEVENS. formerly merchant and
postmaster at Georgia Center, died in Col
orado recently of consumption.
The Congregational church at Middle
bury has refused to accept the resignation
of its pastor, Rev. s. Ia b. Speare.
REV. f. NJ. PREBLE has resigned the pas
torate of the Baptist church in Windsor and
has accepted call to Pttsburg, Pa.
j. r. ARMINGToN of st. Adams has gone
out of the insurance business. He is now
pursuing some other avocation in Boston.
d., e., a.; 4
of Bartonsville drove to Chester. Upon ar
rival there they found the child smothered.
A REVIVAL is in progress in the Methodist
church at West Burke. Eighty conversions
are reported and fifty have joined the church.
THEY are joking a prominent citizen of
Burlington because, intending to call mes
senger boy at the Van Ness, he rang the fire
alarm.
BY the breaking of locomotive tire on
Saturday night Engineer Canerdy of st.
Adams, of the Montreal run, had a leg
broken.
HARRY SUTTON of Hinesburgh returned
from New York recently and was taken
sick with smallpox, giving the towns-people
quite a scare.
j. b. POWELL, proprietor of the Globe
HOTEL Rutland, is in trouble on account of
having failed to furnish bail in liquor pros
ecutions. His furniture has been attached.
by NJ Oleana, with quantity of hay and
produce, farming utensils and household
goods, were burned last week. Loss 81, 900.
insurance $1,000
CoRNELA SANDERS, arrested at Burling-
ton on acharge of trying to poison Mrs. j. 7.
Brownell, so she could marry Mr.. Brownell,
has been set free without trial, her victim
falling to appear against her
PROFESSOR ID. DORCHESTER, JR., for
short time connected with the Methodist
Seminary at Montpelier, but late of Boston
University, has been granted a years leave
OF absence for special study and travel
abroad.
F. L. HoUGHToN of Putney, L. S. Drew of
Burlington, George w. Hooker of Brattle-
boro and John b. Mead of Randolph have
been elected by the New England Agricul
tural Society to represent Vermont on the
board of trustees.
THE heirs of the late George j. Brooks
have given in trust to the trustees of the new
Brooks library at Brattleboro, for the bene-
of the library building and library $4,000
as an endowment, to be known as the
Brooks memorial fund.
CHAPLAIN MCCABE's visit to the Spring
field district, in the interest of missions, was
a success. AT Woodstock $50 were neces-
sary to meet the appointment for "million
for missions by collections only" and in a
few minutes over 500 were pledged AT
the meeting at Bellows Falls over 800
were pledged.
MORE than a year ago, as F. S. Cobleigh
was driving across the flats near East
Charleston, his horse took fright at steam
boiler left near the road. The carriage was
overturned and Mr.. Cobleigh seriously in
jured. He has recently sued S. NJ. Cole,
the party leaving the boiler there, claiming
$1,000 damages.
BENJAMIN II. WooLEY, Rutland's liquor
agent under the prohibtory law, was sem
A.. II
OF correction and $50 fine and costs for three
second offences of selling for unlawful pur-
poses This is believed to be the first i'm
prisonment of any agent in the state since
the law was enacted.
A. B. MORSE, formerly of Chittenden
county and now of western Nebraska, about
a year ago was charged with poisoning his
wife. He was tried and found guilty. Ex-
ceptions We're taken to higher court and
he was granted a new trial He is now out
on $4,000 bail Morse was for several
years foreman in A. b. Maynard's shoe
factory in Richmond.
The indictment against Joel NJ Haven
late treasurer of the Rutland railroad for
overissuing stock, was held bad in all its
counts by the supreme court last week-the
first and fifth for argumentativeness second
and sixth for duplcty and third and fourth
for inconsistency and repugnanGcy Opinion
charged. This is believed to be the end of
all the cases against him.
JUDGE RowELL has filed his decision in
the case of Preston S. Smith of Washington,
ID. c., and Daniel Colby of New London,
Ct, against the Vershire Copper Mining
Company and Ely Goddard and f. NJ. Cain
of New York, giving the orators 81 900 for
damages caused by the smoke from the
smelling furnace upon their farm adjoin-
ing. George w. Kennedy of Waterbury for
the orators; Ex-Governor Farnham of Brad
ford for the defendants.
GOVERNOR f. j. ORMsBEE, Lieutenant
governor l.. X. Fuller, Brigader-general
W. l.. Greenleaf, Acknowledgment T. S.
Peck, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES W. II. Gill
more and Colonel j, j. Estey held a meet
ing in Burlington last Friday night for the
purpose of deciding upon the kind of arms
to be ordered for the state militia under the
act to that effect passed by the last legisla-
ture. They decided in favor of purchasing
the latest pattern of the Springfield breech-
loading rifle, which is the United States
regulation musket.
Other Localities.
FRANCIS S. SMITH of the Ne,o York Weekly
is dead.
THE expectation of horses from Russia is
forbidden.
THE president has approved the Mexican
pension bill